Play button Elon Musk: Ticket to Mars will cost about $200,000bigthink.com - Stephen Johnson • Musk has said that he wants to keep the per-ticket cost of traveling to Mars roughly equivalent to the cost of a house in the U.S. • SpaceX plans to …
Spacecraft NASA’s Deep Space Atomic Clock Could Revolutionize Space TravelBloomberg - Jack Forster In June 25th, at 2:30 AM, a giant rocket roared skyward from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Launch Center. The Complex has a quite long …
Neanderthals Neanderthals may not have been as clever as thoughtnewatlas.com - David Szondy According to a study by the University of Tübingen and New York University (NYU), Neanderthals may not have been as clever as previously supposed. …
Alzheimer's Disease This very normal habit could be a symptom of Alzheimer’s DiseaseLadders - CW Headley According to new peer-reviewed research, alongside memory, the network of wake-promoting brain cells that keep us from crashing throughout the day is …
NASA Nuclear Propulsion Could Be 'Game-Changer' for Space Exploration, NASA Chief Saysspace.com - Mike Wall Humanity's next giant leap could be enabled by next-gen nuclear tech, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said. During the sixth meeting of the …
Mosquitoes Mosquitoes push northern limits with time-capsule eggs to survive wintersphys.org - Washington University in St. Louis When the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) arrived in the United States in the 1980s, it took the invasive blood-sucker only one year to spread …
Play buttonAutos This Crazy Blue Flash From A Nuclear Reactor Firing Up Looks Right Out Of Science FictionThe Drive - By Tyler Rogoway The light is as beautiful as it is eerie and there's some fascinating science behind its origins. And yes, it also looks like the birth of …
Fukushima Fukushima disaster: Key takeaways 8 years laterphys.org - Elaina Hancock In March and April of 2011 the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant disaster resulted in what was the largest ever accidental release of radioactive …
Health New Evidence in Animals Shows Whole Body Vibration Actually Changes The MicrobiomeScienceAlert - Peter Dockrill It's the star of a thousand late-night infomercials: vibration platforms that promise all the hard-won benefits of exercise while you simply stand …
Amelia Earhart Colossal crabs may hold clue to Amelia Earhart fateNational Geographic - Rachel Hartigan SheaDoes the secret of the famed aviator’s disappearance lie in the underground haunts of the world’s largest land invertebrate? The coconut crabs on the island of Nikumaroro are longer than a reporter’s wider
Greenland At the bottom of a glacier in Greenland, climate scientists find troubling signsCNN - By Mary Ilyushina and Frederik Pleitgen, CNNKulusuk, Greenland (CNN) — On one of the hottest days this summer, locals in the tiny village of Kulusuk, Greenland, heard what sounded like an explosion. It turned out to be a soccer field's worth of
US plans to send nuclear reactors to spacert.com - RT Despite the nuclear industry stumbling in the domestic United States, the country is looking to put nuclear reactors on Mars and the Moon.While the …
Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate Changeapple.news - Scientific American For the best reading experience, open this story on a device with Apple News. It may also be available on the publisher’s website.
Science Earth's inner core is doing something weirdNational Geographic - Maya Wei-HaasData from old Soviet weapons tests are helping scientists get a high-resolution look inside our planet. On September 27, 1971, a nuclear bomb exploded on Russia’s Novaya Zemlya islands. The powerful blast
Wayne State University Physicists find new state of matter that can supercharge technologybigthink.com - Paul Ratner • Researchers find a new state of matter called "topological superconductivity". • The state can lead to important advancements in quantum …
News Scientists stunned after spotting record-shattering supernovabgr.com - Mike Wehner Scientists have a pretty good handle on the life cycle of various stars. They know the types of stars that are likely to die in fiery supernova …
Mathematics A Major Proof Shows How to Approximate Numbers Like PiWIRED - Kevin Hartnett The deep recesses of the number line are not as forbidding as they might seem. That’s one consequence of a major new proof about how complicated …
Lausanne Using Artificial Intelligence to Design More Efficient Heat Pumpsgreentechmedia.com - Justin Gerdes Heat pumps are already incredibly efficient. Researchers in Switzerland say they can push efficiencies even further using artificial intelligence. A …
Elon Musk Elon Musk says he wants to 'nuke Mars' and that he plans to make 'Nuke Mars!' T-shirtsinsider - Dave Smith Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, still wants to drop nuclear bombs on Mars to transform it into a livable planet for humans — as evidenced by …
CRISPR Swiss Scientists Upgrade CRISPR to Edit Many Genes at...labiotech.eu - Jonathan Smith A research group at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, has made it possible to edit hundreds of genes at once with CRISPR gene editing. CRISPR gene editing has …
Greenland NASA scientists share startling images of Greenland’s melting iceGlobal News - By Seth Borenstein ABOARD A NASA RESEARCH PLANE OVER GREENLAND — The fields of rippling ice 500 feet below the NASA plane give way to the blue-green of water dotted …
Coral Reefs Scientists studied 2,500 coral reefs to figure out how to save themCNN - By Ashley Strickland, CNN(CNN) — An international group of scientists has surveyed more than 2,500 coral reef systems across 44 countries to determine how to save them in the face of damage caused by climate change and humans,
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoScience Scientists discover new state of matterphys.org - James Devitt A team of physicists has uncovered a new state of matter—a breakthrough that offers promise for increasing storage capabilities in electronic devices …
Science A Strange Radioactive Cloud Likely Came From RussiaWIRED - Meredith Fore On October 2, 2017, scientists from an Italian laboratory issued an alert: They had detected radioactive ruthenium-106 in the air in Milan. It was …
The Arctic Plastic particles falling out of sky with snow in Arcticbbc.co.uk - Roger Harrabin Even in the Arctic, microscopic particles of plastic are falling out of the sky with snow, a study has found.
Light Sail Spacecraft That Could Cover 3.6 Million Miles Per Day Successfully Tested In Earth's OrbitMashable - Aakarsh DubeLightSail, a project by The Planetary Society, demonstrates and explores the capabilities of solar sailing by putting it in low Earth orbit by using a miniature satellite called CubeSat. Although something
Biological Weapons World must prepare for biological weapons that target ethnic groups based on genetics, says Cambridge UniversityThe Telegraph - By Sarah KnaptonBiological weapons could be built which target individuals in a specific ethnic group based on their DNA, a report by the University of Cambridge has warned. Researchers from Cambridge’s Centre for the
Space The Power Source for a Mars Outpost Could Be Ready in 3 YearsPopular Mechanics - By David GrossmanAn experimental miniature nuclear reactor known as Kilopower, meant to power manned outposts beyond Earth, could be ready for an in-flight test as early as 2022, says a project lead project at the Department
Elephants A Cancer Cure in Elephant DNA? Not If They Go ExtinctThe Atlantic - Doug JohnsonAs humans drive vulnerable mammals closer to extinction, valuable mutations hidden in their DNA could be bred out of existence. Around noon one August day in 2011, a familiar dorsal fin rose from the off
